URGENT diagnostic help needed!!
- To: "Pumpkin Digest"
- Subject: URGENT diagnostic help needed!!
- From: m*@i-d-t.com (Mike Mott)
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:15:04 -0500
- Importance: Normal
Hey all,
Hope you are having a better day than me. I came home tonight to find some
kind of coating or discharge on 3 leaf stems (2 on the same junction of a
side vine, 1 on another side vine) This is my prize Dill 881, the top
performer so far. This stuff is a milky tan and viscous enough to stick to
the vine. It goes up, completely encircling the stem, about an inch and a
quarter above the dirt line. There also droplets of it on the dirt right
there.
Circumstances:
No entry wounds visible
no borer wasps spotted
weekly fungi/insecticide spray, last applied last Sunday.
Cucumber beetles spotted today, so 1 1/4 inch of rain Thursday thru Saturday
must have washed off all insecticide
*This vine buried LAST NIGHT with aged leaf compost
No visible damage inside stem (I cut off two of them, and left the third on
for further observation; hope it doesn't get the plant)
2' off of main on second side vine
No eggs or other bug evidence on stem or leaf
Rain and hot temps at night for last 2 days
90 degrees and 96-100% humidity all weekend
Help me!! Does this sound familiar to anyone? This s**! looks nasty and
turns a burnt orange color the second you touch it.
Fungus? Borers? Milky spore? I'm nearly panicked!
Please let me know if you are aware of what this is, and how big of a
problem. Me and the pumpkin gods will be eternally grateful!
Mike Mott
mailto: mikem@i-d-t.com
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